Today our tour around Moorea
wasn’t scheduled until 12:20 on the shore.
We were at anchor at about 7 AM.
We took our time getting dressed and moving around. Can you guess what we did for breakfast? If you guessed anything besides breakfast in
our room, you haven’t been paying close attention to our habits.
On the way to the tenders we
stopped and picked up the daily Sudoku puzzles.
I haven’t done well on them recently, failing on the easy ones while
Gerri had solved both the medium and hard ones.
From where the ship anchored the tenders traveled a large arc to get to
the dock, around a shallow area. This
was our next to last port of call and I still haven’t managed getting from the
ship to the tender with any grace or dignity.
Now dock to tender is a different story, I do that pretty well.
Our tour bus was a Hyundai,
28 passengers. It had a sound system,
but when moving the rattling usually overpowered it. Our driver and guide did manage to point out
points of interest as we made our way around the island. On our last stop here we had only wandered
around the village at the dock area.
The
island is quite scenic and many places inside the surrounding reef had the turquoise blue water indicating shallow water with white sand. The tour took us along the beach through
several villages and to a higher viewpoint called Belvedere. From that point, about 1500’ above sea level
we could see both major bays of the island.
One where large ships like ours anchor and the other where smaller ships
and the daily ferries from Tahiti dock.
Our guide said that there are 18000 people living on Moorea and that
over 2000 commute daily to work in Papeete.
I had hoped that our tour
would take us close to one of the two caches on the island. No such luck the closest we came was 1.27
miles and that one included what the owner described as a difficult walk.
We got back to the ship at
about 3:30 and cleaned up. Even with air
conditioning on the bus we felt pretty sweaty.
We went to the Princess
Theater for a show by singer Karen Beckett.
After dinner we went to another performance by comedian Scott Harris. Back at our cabin it was some reading and
bed.
Tomorrow we have our last
port of call at Bora Bora. Then it is 8
days at sea back to Los Angeles.
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